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Backup and disaster recovery protects your company’s future

Mar 31 2020 / i-Tech

Your company’s future

We take our personal technology everywhere. That palm-sized computers we always keep with us hold our digital life–our emails, our social networks, the music we heard at our high school prom, even those irreplaceable moments of our family captured in photos and videos.

This all goes with us when we’re on a plane crossing oceans or hiking a remote trail in the Ozarks–even when we’re sitting at our desk, doing our daily work. All that vital and personal information constantly at risk of being lost forever because it exists in a small metal-alloy rectangle in our pocket.

But we value this information and take countermeasures to ensure not one byte of data is lost. Everything we do syncs across our devices and to the cloud. So when we accidentally drop that $700 phone in our morning coffee and fry it, we know that all that information, all our digital life, is still accessible to us.

We take all these countermeasures to ensure our personal data can be recovered in any disaster which may befall our personal technology, yet 80 percent of companies with over 1 million folders have over 50,000 folders open to everyone. That’s not the job of a good disaster recovery team.

At i-Tech Support we take your backup and disaster recovery (BDR) as seriously as you take the protection of your most personal and valuable data. Through our coupling of i-Tech Support on-site and cloud-based backup with our managed service support, we ensure your company’s data is backed up and easily accessible no matter what happens.

80 percent of companies with over 1 million folders have over 50,000 folders open to everyone.

Backups ensure your business stays healthy

BDR is like an insurance plan. It doesn’t do much while you’re healthy, but the moment something unexpected happens it’s there to save you money and stress. And like any insurance plan, you hope that your backups are never needed, but know that anything can happen. Though technology is more reliable than ever, it isn’t bulletproof (or weatherproof). It’s best to be prepared for any circumstance that you face.

Common threats that your data faces every day include:

  • Theft
  • Software failure
  • Equipment failure
  • Environmental disasters
  • User error
  • Power outages
  • Security breaches (viruses, hacking)

And that’s just the most common threat.

Like any other business, you may not be equipped to prevent these threats while ensuring that if one of these situations occurs it doesn’t cripple your business.  Ideally, you want that security, but affording the technology and staffing required may be beyond your scope. By partnering with I-tech Support, your new BDR systems are handled front to back, eliminating the hassle and stress put on you and your business. Everything from research, implementation, education, and maintenance is handled by industry professionals dedicated to the systems and your business’ functionality and future.

Protecting your future with the right BDR system

You’ve been around long enough to see backup systems in place. You’ve seen the local servers which house your data and–just in case–write to a second redundant backup. Maybe you’ve even seen a primary with a secondary and tertiary redundancy. You may think these systems are just what you need–that if your data is damaged, you can quickly pull from those local servers and have everything back to normal quickly.

Sadly, those spectacular local backups aren’t fireproof. Or waterproof. Or ten-story-building-falling-down-on-top-of-them-proof.

On-site backup just isn’t enough anymore.

That’s why, in order to have a truly secure BDR system in place, you can’t rely solely on those local backups. Luckily,  i-Tech Support combines local redundancies with cloud server backups to prevent any loss of data, even in the case of a ten-story building crushing your server.

Cloud storage is the fastest growing BDR solution in the market.  According to a Comparitech survey, 84 percent of all businesses store data or backups in the cloud. It’s no longer the technology landscape of the future with questionable security–it’s the security standard by which the modern-day business operates.

In the case of a disaster, using cloud backup as an off-site redundancy to your on-premise backup could give you valuable time. Recovering a physical server can take weeks if it isn’t impossible. If you have a cloud backup up and ready to go, you can get right back to work and get that time back.

Think a little extra up-time isn’t worth all the trouble? On average, organizations can lose $100,000 for every hour of downtime on their site.

By combining i-Tech Support on-site and cloud-based BDR system with the professional support of their managed services, you’re not only protecting your business’ functionality but also ensuring its future growth.

According to Unitrends survey, 84 percent of all businesses store data or backups in the cloud.

Protecting your future with the right BDR system

Having a fully-functional, up-to-date and redundant BDR plan is integral to business functionality today. But all that is required to meet those standards may be beyond most business’s scope. Hardware alone isn’t enough–you need professionals to manage that hardware.

At i-Tech Support, we not only tailor your BDR plan to you and your environment, but we manage all the hardware and service of your BDR. i-Tech Support will monitor, test and maintain your BDR to ensure that you always stay ahead of whatever threats are posed to you and your business.

When you partner with i-Tech support, you partner with professionals who are experienced in supporting your business. We have the well being and future of your business at the center of our attention.

Partner with us to gain an experienced MSP who will protect the future of your business.

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